Dinostar77 wrote:Thorntons is gone. All of the shops wont be reopening. No major loss to the high street. As a brand they screwed themselves years ago when they were taken over and went for mass market crap chocolate and left behind what made them thorntons.
davyK wrote:Dinostar77 wrote:Thorntons is gone. All of the shops wont be reopening. No major loss to the high street. As a brand they screwed themselves years ago when they were taken over and went for mass market crap chocolate and left behind what made them thorntons.
Yeah - going down market may have got them a splurge initially but long term they lost what was different about them.
yourfavouriteuncle wrote:Hasn’t Thorntons always been down market? HC sell a totally different type of product than these guys have ever bothered with, haven’t they? It’s not somewhere I’ve ever bothered with because i always just presumed it wasn’t so good but now I’m hearing talk of how it’s only recently gone downhill and i don’t know where i stand anymore. Did it genuinely used to be of a similar quality to Hotel Choc?
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